Tala braces for approval in Stockport
Plans for a 106-apartment development off Hopes Carr were favourably received by the council’s relevant area committee and are expected to be rubber-stamped later this week.
Tala Homes submitted a planning application to Stockport Council requesting permission to build an apartment block on the site of the former silk mill in January 2024.
The scheme, designed by Chase Architecture, would rise to seven storeys and comprise 38 one-bedroom apartments and 68 with two.
No affordable homes are proposed due to viability constraints.
Tala’s development also proposes the creation of a park around Hempshaw Brook, which runs roughly parallel to Hopes Carr.
Nearby, two blocks on the corner of Hopes Carr and Wellington Street next to Tala’s site were completed by Seddon in 2013.
To learn more about Tala’s plans, search for application reference number DC/090690 on Stockport Council’s planning portal.
With a council that is struggking with social housing/affordable homes back log, why are the council allowing a development with no affordable housing. Shameless
By LT
If they can’t provide a element of affordable housing because of viability they shouldn’t be allowed to progress.
By Anonymous
Then there’d be no new homes, making the problem worse….
By ALL
How many more apartments
By Margaret
Dear people commenting on this article – please read the article above about proposals to build on fields in Woodford so as to see the bigger picture.
By Sceptic
Margaret (April 29, 2025 at 11:56 am) – Stockport’s housing target is about 31,000 homes over a 15 year period. Apartments and other high density types of development (such as terraces) are the only way they will get anywhere near that, even with releasing a whole load of land from the green-belt (which they don’t want to do but will be forced to one way or another)
By Anonymous
We need housing for everyone, not just for people with well of jobs what about people on minimum wage
By Anonymous
Less people less housing needed..easy.Also resusing existing underused stock better. But none of that makes money and so the merry-go- round continues and we all have to pretend.
By Anonymous